[Apologetics] Excellent links from Jacqui

[Stuart D. Gathman]

Satire (don't get mad Art :-):

http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/069216.php

A detailed legal timeline, by a lawyer, showing that the Florida
Courts really have properly interpreted Florida law in the Terri Schiavo 
case, and did make quite a determined effort to discern whether Terri is 
PVS or MCS.  The crux of the legal problem is that feeding tubes were 
recently declared "artificial life support".

http://abstractappeal.com/schiavo/infopage.html

Another important thing that belongs on my timeline.  I think Michael was
unfairly demonized.  At the time he despaired, and killed her cats, etc,
he also signed over the decision of what to do with Terri to the courts.  
Whatever changes of heart Michael might have had, he was powerless to
change what the courts decided to do.  He has not, in fact, been Terri's 
legal guardian for most of the past 12 years.  This case is really about 
the Schindlers vs. the courts - not the Schindlers vs Michael.  Those 
trying to save Terri are mad at Michael mainly because of his testimony 
before the court (which was attempting to fulfill the guardianship he had 
signed over to them) that Terri said she wouldn't want to live as a 
vegetable.  It is not Michael killing Terri now, it is the courts.  He
is just a pawn.

The issue for pro-life people, is that it doesn't really matter whether
Terri wanted to live as a vegetable.  God didn't give her, or the courts,
the authority to make that decision.

An important problem NOT addressed by the lawyer is that Terri can
be fed without the feeding tube.  It is just more work - requiring, as
Jacqui said, a full time nurse.

Removing the feeding tube was not the moral outrage.  Sending police
to keep food and water away from a mentally disabled but otherwise
healthy woman was the moral outrage.

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	      Stuart D. Gathman <stuart at bmsi.com>
    Business Management Systems Inc.  Phone: 703 591-0911 Fax: 703 591-6154
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